What is the Progressives email list?

The e-list is a collection of e-mail addresses managed by TheTroyPress.
When a user sends an email to the list-address, the message is forwarded to
all list members, so everyone receives the same email message.

Because we have chosen the "anonymous" feature, senders email addresses
are removed, so, those who wish to reply to a message will be replying to
the whole list, and everyone benefits from the interaction. In this way, the
whole community is served.

Is my anonymity protected?

YES. As we're discussing political topics, many people are sensitive
about who they share their political views with. Therefore, this email list
is configured to safeguard anonymity by removing your personal email address
from posts that you send to the email list. You can certainly share anything
you like about yourself on-list, but the list itself will not "out you"
- that is something you can do for yourself as you may wish but the list itself
won't share the email address from which you posted, only whatever content
you yourself intentionally provide.

What basic guidelines govern the use of the
e-list?

The Progressives e-list is a no-flame, no-personal-attacks email list
- you can attack ideas, but not people. If there's any conflict, please keep
your more heated comments focused on ideas and never on people, on this list
or otherwise. As this is a politically-focused email list, naturally people
will eventually become a focus of someone's ire, so please separate out the
actions of said person, their ideas, and refrain from personal vitriolic insults
- this helps keep us all focused on what's important (policy!) and avoid unpleasantries.

Further, to help everyone be able to read all posts, everyone is requested
to please only send posts to the list in "plain text".

... This means that you should turn off all "encoding".Please
do not use mime, or html encoding.

Please note:

"ON-TOPIC" posts are anything supporting progressive politics,
or attacking them. While off-topic posting happens, and should be gently
tolerated, posting which is clearly antithetical to progressive politics
MAY get you removed from the list. That isn't to say concerns aren't
on-topic, they are, so long as your posting isn't openly hostile to progressive
policies; if your really a right-winger, either keep that point to yourself
or this isn't the list for you and please save us the trouble of kicking
you off the list and just go elsewhere. We are interested in simply helping
support progressive politics and as you to keep your non-constructive
negative thoughts to yourself.

When are posts sent?

There are two possibilities. There's a so-called "live list "
- all messages are sent to everyone immediately. The delay is only as long
as the mail queue and network latency and should not be long. We also offer
a 'Digest mode' in which a collection of messages is sent as a single email
to those who request it, usually on a daily basis (presuming anything to send)
or when the total number of messages reaches some pre-set size.